The KAMAZ Chronicle
Squad16 Jul 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dmitry Miller
93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. KAMAZ lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market16 Jul 2035
Dominik Kühn puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at KAMAZ, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets16 Jul 2035
The paperwork begins on Ivan Gulko
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. KAMAZ have done the hard part with Sochi, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Boardroom16 Jul 2035
6 academy players handed senior numbers at KAMAZ
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets16 Jul 2035
Door shut on Konstantin Dorofeev
KAMAZ asked and Rubin said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market16 Jul 2035
One of our own: Ilya Rybakov joins the KAMAZ first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ilya Rybakov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market16 Jul 2035
One of our own: Andrei Rogov joins the KAMAZ first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andrei Rogov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market16 Jul 2035
KAMAZ promote Pyotr Zhdanov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pyotr Zhdanov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout16 Jul 2035
No hiding place for Nikita Nikitin
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Nikitin, and the manager let it.